Why set custom thumbnail for youtube playlist embed and how?

September 12, 2015

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WE had written an article on setting custom thumbnail for youtube embed but that trick doesn’t work if you are trying to embed youtube playlists. In this post we are going to cover just that. One major drawback of the default youtube playlist player is their unappealing thumbnail which results in fewer number of playbacks and the other being the increased load time. Codegena Youtube embed code generator takes care of both these issues. Thus by setting a custom thumbnail for your playlist embed you could improve the number of total playbacks which could result in more page visit duration. Moreover, this on demand player loads the actual playlist only when the image is clicked thereby increasing the webpage performance.